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This is a set that gets a lot of use in my house. Tomorrow my kids are going to a party for two friends, both called Hamish and both in my son’s soccer team and sports fans. I was able to make two of these cards in under ten minutes and while very simple I like how they turned out and hope that Hamish and Hamish will like them too. Sorry about the picture quality – taken quickly on my phone before packing them up :).

I loved the photo below from the current Paper Smooches Sparks challenge and was definitely inspired to play along. The super-versatile Paper Smooches Frames 1 die is the main focus, and I filled it with floral images from PS Botanicals 1, coloured directly using Stampin Up markers. I also used a marker to highlight the stitched edging on the frame. The background was stamped using Stampin Up’s large Hardwood background stamp in Hero Arts Charcoal ink.

Just a quick post to share how I store my Copics. I loved the storage solutions Jennifer McGuire shared on her blog and the clear Linus bins she uses are happily available locally here in Australia at Howards Storage World and I’ve even found some at Big W. So I have a few of those containers, including an 8″ x 8″ one that I love for my Copics as it has handles and is easy to pick up and take with me. It’s not full so the markers do move around – I’ll probably add some dividers to keep the colour families together, but having learned how to mix colour families in this class I’m less hung up on having them all grouped together anyway!

I had to make a bookmark for my older son too of course (see previous post!), but this time I coloured the adorable Lawn Fawn dog practice image using grey markers and I did the Distress Ink background in blues and heat embossed the Lawn Fawn greeting using Stampin Up silver embossing powder. I used some DMC stranded metallic thread for the tassel. The boys are already using these tags in their books upstairs at night when reading too :).

My young son Liam was watching Debby Hughes’ Online Card Classes video with me where she made a beautiful card with a tag with this little dog on it. Liam loved it and requested a bookmark version, so here’s what I made for him. I coloured the background of the tag with Distress Inks. The sentiment, from the Lawn Fawn stamp set Into the Woods, was heat embossed using Stampin Up gold embossing powder. I also splattered some Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine on the tag and used Ranger Black Enamel Accents on the eyes.

So I had another go at colouring this little halloween robot and bat and cut them out to use on a card for the OCC Day 8 homework. The background paper is from the Studio Calico Wanderlust 6×6 paper pad and I thought it looked a little like a birch forest background. My new Wink of Stella pens arrived last week, including a black one, so I decided to colour the bat wings. After I’d stuck it on the card of course. And without testing the pen on scrap paper first. Can you guess what happened? Yes it ‘blooped’ all over the card – a big splotch in fact and some little splatters. Well I just added some more splatters and cut out a bigger circle for the moon to cover the biggest splotch. So I’m also putting this card in the Mistakes gallery :).

Oh, and I also used my Copics to colour some plain white taffeta ribbon which I used on the card – it didn’t need a heavy application and I think I can stop buying ribbon in every colour now!

I hadn’t really thought about it before, but after trying to colour this flower image with my red Copics I realised it was a lot harder to get the shading variation right compared with some of the other colour families. I do love the reds, but really struggled using them on this image – it ended up looking quite flat. Perhaps I’ll just use reds more for accents than large areas ;). And I must have been getting tired when I did this cute little robot too as this colouring is not good at all! Oh well, it’s a practice sheet right?!